Programme Specification for the 2023/4 academic year
BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies and Global Cultural Studies (4-year)
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies and Global Cultural Studies (4-year) | Programme code | UFA4EGLSML19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2023/4 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies and Global Cultural Studies (4-year) programme is an exit route only and not available for direct application.
This programme will give you a thorough grounding in the main themes and methods of two progressive disciplines, Film Studies and Modern Languages. This Combined Honours degree enables you to divide your time equally between these related subject areas. While at the University of Exeter, you will study half of your modules from Modern Languages and the other half from Film Studies.
Film & Television Studies offers the opportunity to study an exciting range of film and television from different periods and international contexts; you will watch films from American, European, and other World cinemas, as well as learning about the trends and technologies of television. You will gain a deep and wide ranging knowledge of film and television as cultural, social, industrial and global phenomena and familiarity with different conceptual and theoretical approaches to them. The range of material studied will equip you to understand the complex histories of these media as well as how important issues of cultural difference are raised through them, giving you the tools and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude to your own media culture. We encourage you to make the most of the facilities available to broaden and enhance your study of film, not just on campus and in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum but also through the lively film culture (art-house cinema, media facilities) in the city itself.
The Global Cultural Studies side of the programme offers choice between the study of one of seven major languages (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish), taught by experienced language specialists including native speakers and academic staff at the cutting edge of research in their particular discipline. Progression through the programme will combine the acquisition of language with the study of the literature, history, film and linguistics of the language disciplines as well as advanced translation practice. You will develop a high level of proficiency in reading, writing, understanding and speaking your selected language, providing you with valued skills for future careers. A carefully arranged choice of modules enables you to focus more towards language skills or to learn about the society in which a particular language is spoken. Our cultural modules cover topics as broad as history, politics, philosophy, literature and cinema; they complement the language study within the programme and further ground your understanding of the language of your choice.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
This programme aims to develop your competence in the subject-specific research skills required in both Film & Television Studies and your chosen language. It will:
- give you a thorough grounding in the core principles of film and television and modern languages through study which engages you imaginatively in the analysis of language, literature, visual media and culture.
- train you towards a high level of proficiency in reading, speaking, writing and listening in your chosen language, with the aim of enabling you to communicate readily in personal and professional arenas.
- give you an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive features of European, US, and World cinema
- provide you with an appreciation of the trends and technologies of television in the UK, US, and elsewhere
- provide you with a variety of approaches (both traditional and innovative) to teaching and learning, and a lively and supportive studying environment which stimulates enjoyment and independent study
- provide a broad and challenging intellectual training and a foundation of personal and key skills for those students entering the world of work on graduation, together with a suitable basis for those who wish to pursue further research in the relevant subject or subjects
- use the research expertise of staff to promote a stimulating interaction of teaching and research within the flexible programme structure
- enable you to become reflective and autonomous independent learners.
- develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills of value in graduate employment
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. You are expected to balance your credits in each stage of the programme, taking 60 credits from Film Studies, and 60 credits from Modern Languages. On the Modern Languages side of your programme, you will normally take optional content modules appropriate to your degree stage and corresponding to your compulsory language module.
The College of Humanities, however, takes the view that in Combined Honours programmes you would be incapable of reaching a satisfactory standard in the chosen language if you took fewer than 60 credits per year in it. Accordingly you may not exercise the modularity option in Modern Languages (modularity is where you are permitted to take elective modules from other disciplines that are not included in the programme specification). However, it would be possible for you in certain cases, to exercise the right from the Film & Television Studies side of your programme alone.
At stages 1, 2 and 4, you will take one compulsory language module amounting to 30 credits in total. At stage 3, you will spend a year abroad in one of the following ways:
- on a suitable programme of study at an approved partner institution;
- as an Assistant in a school under the scheme arranged by the British Council;
- in approved paid or voluntary employment.
The year may be spent either in one country where a language of study is spoken or, if suitable arrangements can be made, divided between two countries. Exceptionally, other arrangements may be approved by the Director of Education. On the year abroad you are required either to take a compulsory module which tests your language acquisition, your intercultural competence and develops employability skills and environmental awareness, or, if you study at an approved partner institution you will be assessed on the basis of the marks obtained at the host university and an oral examination held on your return to Exeter.
Stage 1
60 credits of compulsory Film Studies modules, 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language and 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language.
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
a select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
b select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; on the Modern Languages side of your programme, you may select a maximum of 15 credits of either the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year. Please note that certain modules may only be available to students on Single Honours programmes, or to students who have taken a particular language module. This information will be given in the pre-requisites or co-requisites section of the relevant module descriptor.Please note for students of Modern Languages Portuguese (Single Honours or Combined Honours) MLP1002 is compulsory. For FLC students or other non-Modern Language students, it remains optional
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAF1501 | Major Debates in Film Theory | 30 | No |
| EAF1506 | Interrogating Screens | 30 | No |
| MLX S1 BA comp language 2020-1 [See note a above] | |||
| MLF1001 | French Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLF1052 | French Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLG1001 | German Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLG1052 | German Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLI1001 | Italian Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLI1052 | Italian Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLM1052 | Beginners Chinese | 30 | Yes |
| MLP1052 | Portuguese Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLR1001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLR1030 | Russian Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLS1001 | Spanish Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLS1056 | Spanish Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX S1 BA French opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLF1014 | Love and Death in French Culture | 15 | No |
| MLF1015 | War and Conflict in French Literature | 15 | No |
| MLF1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | No |
| MLF1103 | The French Language, Present and Past | 15 | No |
| MLF1105 | An Introduction to French Thought | 15 | No |
| MLF1121 | French Visual History | 15 | No |
| SML1105 | Reason and Existence: An Introduction to French Thought | 15 | No |
| SML1015 | War And Conflict In French Literature | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA German opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLG1014 | A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory | 15 | No |
| MLG1017 | Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000 | 15 | No |
| MLG1018 | Nature and the City in German Literature, Visual Arts and Film | 15 | No |
| MLG1020 | Made in Germany: the History and Culture of a Global Brand | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Italian opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLI1016 | Italy Inside Out: Popular Visual Narratives about Italy | 15 | No |
| MLI1055 | Introduction to Italian Linguistics | 15 | No |
| MLI1121 | A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Chinese opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLM1010 | China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments | 15 | No |
| MLM1012 | Modern China, a Brief History: 18th to 20th Century | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Portuguese opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLP1002 | Introduction to the Lusophone World | 15 | No |
| MLP1003 | Language Encounters in the Portuguese-speaking World | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Russian opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLR1005 | Chekhov's Major Plays | 15 | No |
| MLR1023 | Russia: Empire and Identity | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Spanish opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| MLS1016 | Gender Perspectives | 15 | No |
| MLS1064 | An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context | 15 | No |
| MLS1065 | The Making of Modern Spain | 15 | No |
| MLS1066 | The Making of Modern Latin America: History Through Literature and Culture | 15 | No |
| MLS1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA ML opt 2020-1 [See note b above] | |||
| SML1207 | Introduction to Film | 15 | No |
| SML1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | No |
| SML1014 | A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory | 15 | No |
| SML1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language, 60 credits of optional modules in Film Studies and 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language.
Subject to selecting 120 credits in the stage overall, you must:
c select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
d select 60 credits from this list of optional Film Studies modules.
e select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; on the Modern Languages side of your programme, you may select a maximum of 15 credits of either the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year. It is your responsibility to ensure that credit for SML modules can be counted towards the language of your study, where this is necessary for your credit count
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX S2 BA comp language 2020-1 [See note c above] | |||
| MLF2001 | French Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLF2152 | Intermediate French | 30 | Yes |
| MLG2001 | German Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLG2052 | Intermediate German | 30 | Yes |
| MLI2001 | Italian Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLI2051 | Italian Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLM2052 | Intermediate Chinese (One) | 30 | Yes |
| MLP2052 | Intermediate Portuguese | 30 | Yes |
| MLR2001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I | 30 | Yes |
| MLR2030 | Intermediate Russian | 30 | Yes |
| MLS2001 | Spanish Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLS2156 | Spanish Language (ex-beginners) | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| FST S2 BA CH opt 2020-1 [See note d above] | |||
| EAF2502 | Shots in the Dark | 30 | No |
| EAF2508 | Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity | 30 | No |
| EAF2510 | Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture | 30 | No |
| EAF2511 | Television: Times, Trends and Technologies | 30 | No |
| EAF2512 | European Cinemas: Art, Industry, Entertainment | 30 | No |
| MLF2065 | Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates | 15 | No |
| AHV2013 | Photography and Evidence | 15 | No |
| HUM2004 | Making a Career in Publishing | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA French opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLF2003 | Freedom and French Realism | 15 | No |
| MLF2012 | Evolution of the French Language | 15 | No |
| MLF2029 | Varieties of French | 15 | No |
| MLF2056 | Provoking Thoughts - French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century | 15 | No |
| MLF2065 | Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates | 15 | No |
| MLF2066 | Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment | 15 | No |
| MLF2071 | 'Paris je t'aime': Writing the City | 15 | No |
| MLF2075 | Rap ta France: Narratives of National Identity in French Rap | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA German opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLG2003 | Youth and Age: Generations in German Fiction and Film | 15 | No |
| MLG2018 | Berlin - Culture, History and Politics | 15 | No |
| MLG2019 | Gender, Race and Migration in 20th and 21st-century German Literature | 15 | No |
| MLG2047 | Language in the Goethezeit | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Italian opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLI2018 | Love (and Marriage?) in Contemporary Italian Film Comedy | 15 | No |
| MLI2207 | Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse | 15 | No |
| AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Chinese opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLM2010 | Reading China: from Mandarins to Revolutionists | 15 | No |
| MLM2011 | Encounters and Entanglements: Chinese Art in Global Perspective | 15 | No |
| MLM2012 | Politics of Art: a Cultural Studies Perspective on Modern China | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Portuguese opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLP2002 | Portuguese as a Global Language | 15 | No |
| MLP2005 | Travelling Identities in the Lusophone World | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Russian opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLR2021 | Understanding Russia | 15 | No |
| MLR2023 | A Russian Carnival of the Animals | 15 | No |
| MLR2024 | Exploring Revolution: The Making of Soviet Society and Culture in the 1920s | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Spanish opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| MLS2017 | Images of Dissent: Spanish Film under Franco | 15 | No |
| MLS2045 | Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry | 15 | No |
| MLS2060 | Love and Death in Spanish Drama | 15 | No |
| MLS2067 | Spain from Democracy to Dictatorship: Republic, Civil War and Francoism, 1931-1953 | 15 | No |
| MLS2070 | Catalonia Is Not Spain? Modern Catalan Culture in Context | 15 | No |
| MLS2072 | Place and Identity in Contemporary Venezuelan Culture | 15 | No |
| MLS2159 | Key Modern Poets from Spain and Latin America | 15 | No |
| MLS2160 | Fiction in Post-War Spain: Voices of Conformity and Subversion | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA ML opt 2020-1 [See note e above] | |||
| SML2209 | Music in Medieval Europe | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| HUM2004 | Making a Career in Publishing | 15 | No |
| HUM2005 | Tales of Freedom, Necessity and Providence | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules
f You must take one of these modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX S3 BA comp year abroad 2020-1 [See note f above] | |||
| SML3010 | Work and Study Abroad | 120 | Yes |
| SML3020 | Study Abroad at a Partner University (with Assessment in the Foreign Language) | 120 | Yes |
| SML3025 | Internship Abroad Combined with Study at a Partner University Abroad | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
60 credits of optional Film Studies modules, 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language and 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language.
Subject to selecting 120 credits in the stage you must:
g select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
h select 60 credits from this list of optional Film Studies modules.
i select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; you may select a maximum of 15 credits of the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year, these are additional to SML3015. You may, alternatively, take SML3030. Please note you may only select one dissertation module across the two programmes. It is your responsibility to ensure that credit for SML modules can be counted towards the language of your study, where this is necessary for your credit count.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX SF BA comp language 2020-1 [See note g above] | |||
| MLF3111 | Advanced French Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLG3111 | Advanced German Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLI3111 | Advanced Italian Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLM3111 | Advanced Chinese Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLP3111 | Advanced Portuguese Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLR3111 | Advanced Russian Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLS3111 | Advanced Spanish Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| FST SF BA CH opt 2020-1 [See note h above] | |||
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3177 | India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction | 30 | No |
| EAF3501 | American Independent Film | 30 | No |
| EAF3513 | British Screens | 30 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAF3518 | Queering British Film and Television | 30 | No |
| EAF3106 | Female Screens: Representation, Agency and Authorship | 30 | No |
| EAF3233 | Surrealism and Its Legacies | 30 | No |
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | No |
| AHV3004 | Victorian Visions: Art, Industry and the Modern | 30 | No |
| MLX SF BA French opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLF3006 | The Invention of Modern Love | 15 | No |
| MLF3034 | Sociolinguistics of French | 15 | No |
| MLF3046 | Dialectology in France | 15 | No |
| MLF3050 | Music, Poetry, and Society at the Late Medieval French Court | 15 | No |
| MLF3069 | Writing Women and Strange Monsters | 15 | No |
| MLF3073 | Proust's a la Recherche du Temps Perdu | 15 | No |
| MLF3075 | First-Person Outsiders in Modern French Literature | 15 | No |
| MLF3078 | Philosophers, Prophets, and Mystics in French Culture | 15 | No |
| MLF3080 | Les Miserables from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA German opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | No |
| MLG3037 | Coping with Catastrophe: German Culture, Literature and Politics in the Interwar Years | 15 | No |
| MLG3039 | What Did the German Kaiserreich Do for Us? Questions to a New Nation (1870-1914) | 15 | No |
| MLG3040 | Sex, Sciences and the Arts | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Italian opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLI3028 | Italian Varieties and Dialects | 15 | No |
| MLI3029 | Italian Film Through Stardom | 15 | No |
| MLI3199 | Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Chinese opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLM3009 | China through the Lens: Cultural Translation and Self-Presentation | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Portuguese opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLP3002 | Afro-Brazil: Ideas of Africa in Brazilian Fiction | 15 | No |
| MLP3005 | Changing voices: tracing the development of Portuguese over time | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Russian opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLR3019 | Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin | 15 | No |
| MLR3026 | The Deceptive City: The Creation of St Petersburg in Russian Literature | 15 | No |
| MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Spanish opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| MLS3037 | Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain | 15 | No |
| MLS3057 | Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America | 15 | No |
| MLS3065 | Spain and 1898: from Disaster to Modernity | 15 | No |
| MLS3066 | Almodovar's Spain: Cinema and Society | 15 | No |
| MLS3067 | "Monster of Nature and Phoenix of Wits." An Introduction to the Work of Lope de Vega | 15 | No |
| MLS3068 | Staging Conflicts: Spanish Romantic Drama | 15 | No |
| SML3031 | Advanced Translation Skills | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA ML opt 2020-1 [See note i above] | |||
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| SML3041 | Green Matters in Modern Languages and Cultures | 15 | No |
| SML3042 | Transcultural Devon: Creating, Analysing and Subtitling Interviews in the Context of Migration | 15 | No |
| HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
| HUM3015 | The Place of Meaning: Gardens in Britain and China | 15 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Identify and evaluate the variety of approaches and traditions taken within both the study of Film & Television and Modern Languages, combining language and culture. | ILOs 1-8 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme. Modules at Stage 4 are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. Core language modules at Stage 1 include an introduction to language-learning strategies, with subsequent stages requiring you to make systematic use of the self-access material available in the library, in the Foreign Language Centre, and via web-based resources. Language modules at each stage use authentic materials in the chosen language/s, both written (texts in a variety of styles and registers) and spoken (oral classes with native speakers, together with use of TV and the electronic media). These forms of target-language material are used in a variety of ways, including reading or listening comprehension, translation, and production of related material in the chosen language/s through exercises such as summarising, essay-writing and oral presentations. Instruction is reinforced by regular formative assessment. Formal grammar is usually taught, both in seminars and through guided study of a textbook, at a level appropriate to each stage of the programmes and to level of achievement at the outset of the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, coursework, log-books, web-based assessments, visual and written essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and (if chosen) a dissertation. Essays, exams and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, 1-8. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
9. Apply critical skills in the analysis of film and television. | ILOs 9-13 and 15-16 are developed throughout the programme in film and television and modern language modules, becoming more sophisticated as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of modules across all four stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within third year special subject and advanced language modules. ILO 14 is implicit in all study of the language and cultures of another country, and all modules | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, written and visual essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and (if chosen) a dissertation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
17. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. ILO 26 is especially developed in the course of the Year Abroad module. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, written and visual essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILOs 17-22 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through all stages of the programme. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. ILO 23 is associated especially with the range of group presentations and projects taking place in modules. Group assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team-working, collaborative and communicative skills. ILOs 24-25 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations and end of module exams, which occur in all four levels of the programme. ILO 26 is assessed especially in the course of the year abroad module. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Award Rules
Your degree classification will be calculated from the credit-weighted average marks for stages 2 and 4 combined in the ratio 1:2 respectively.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within Film Studies and Modern Languages have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who is available at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies and Global Cultural Studies (4-year)
19. UCAS Code
Not applicable to this programme.
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] Communication, media, film and cultural studies
[Honours] Languages and related studies
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 01/06/2016 |
Date of last revision | 15/10/2020 |
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